Word: railways
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...define. It may not inhabit the terrain much longer. Like the Furbish lousewort and the snail darter, the Southern Crescent is an endangered species. The aging Crescent is the nation's last lavish, privately run, long-haul passenger train. But its owner, the highly profitable and efficient Southern Railway System, claims to have lost $6.7 million last year on the Crescent's Washington-New Orleans...
...though. At nearly every stop along Crescent's southwesterly slope, the ICC will conduct hearings on what it calls "Case FD 28697" and the economic impact of the train's demise. Quite possibly the Crescent's elegant rolling stock may be sold to Mexico's railway system, where the old Twentieth Century Limited is alive and well cared for, running nightly between Mexico City and Guadalajara...
...Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
...Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, it is "the project of the century." In the Soviet press, it is BAM. But whatever it is called, the Soviet Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway is the biggest construction project under way anywhere in the world today. To tap directly into the varied resources of Siberia, the Soviets are laying track across a 1,965-mile stretch of wilderness running from the frontier town of Ust-Kut near Lake Baikal to an eastern terminus at Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost...
...first parsonage in rural Kibworth became ever after a touchstone of the boys' halcyon youth. "They had their own cow in the pasture, their own rookery in the elms, and, best of all, the railway ran past the bottom of the garden," writes Fitzgerald. "In memory it was always summer, with the victoria plums ripening on the south wall...